Algorithmic Options Trading 3
In this article we’ll look into a real options trading strategy, like the strategies that we code for clients. This one however is based on a system from a trading book. As mentioned before, options...
View ArticleDeep Learning Systems for Bitcoin 1
Since December 2017, bitcoins can not only be traded at more or less dubious exchanges, but also as futures at the CME and CBOE. And already several trading systems popped up for bitcoin and other...
View ArticleThe Scholz Brake: Fixing Germany’s New 1000% Trader Tax
Would you like to read – from begin to end – a 18 page pounderous law draft titled “Law for introducing a duty to report cross-border tax structuring”? The members of the German Bundestag apparently...
View ArticlePetra on Programming: Truncated Indicators
Cumulative indicators, such as the EMA or the MACD, are affected by a theoretically infinite history of candles. In finite backtests, these indicators return slightly different results depending on the...
View ArticlePetra on Programming: The Compare Price Momentum Oscillator
Vitali Apirine, inventor of the OBVM indicator, presented another new tool for believers in technical analysis. His new Compare Price Momentum Oscillator (CPMO), described in the Stocks &...
View ArticlePetra on Programming: The Gann Hi-Lo Activator
Fortunately I could write this article without putting my witch hat on. Despite its name, the ‘Gann Hi-Lo Activator’ was not invented by the famous esotericist, but by Robert Krausz in a 1998 article...
View Article“Please Send Me a Trading System!”
“It should produce 150 pips per week. With the best indicators that you know. How much does it cost? Please also send live histories of your top systems.” Although we often get such requests, we still...
View ArticlePetra on Programming: Short-Term Candle Patterns
Japanese rice merchants invented candle patterns in the eighteenth century. Some traders believe that those patterns are still valid today. But alas, it seems no one yet got rich with them. Still,...
View ArticleMonetize Alternative Facts!
After last week’s events, major social media companies made another attempt at saving humanity. Twitter and Facebook booted Trump and some of his enablers, Google and Apple cancelled Parler. But is...
View ArticleBetter Indicators with Windowing
If indicators didn’t help your trading so far, just pimp them by preprocessing their input data. John Ehlers proposed in his TASC September article the windowing technique: multiply the input data with...
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